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Although it doesn’t have the reputation of the Oscars, the Golden Globe Awards are still a night for Hollywood to sparkle. All the stars dress up in their finery and mingle with other genetically blessed A-listers to recognise the best of the best in (mostly) American entertainment.

Of course I would imagine it’s not all glitz and glamour. For the people attending, it’s probably more about making small talk with second-rate celebrity reporters on the red carpet then getting boozed up on expensive champagne and trying to not look disappointed when they don’t win their award (except for Kate Winslet of course, who won an award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for two different films).

Slumdog Millionaire seemed to be the favourite of the night picking up awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director – Motion Picture, Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Best Original Score – Motion Picture. According to Proto, the reason for its popularity is that it provides another viewpoint on loss and poverty.

If anything, Slumdog Millionaire provides a little perpsective on the GLOBAL financial crisis, and makes it clear how much more competitive things are than most people imagine. As bad as things are for middle-class Americans, Asians and Europeans who’ve lost their jobs, homes, life savings and find themselves in shelters or living on the streets of major cities – hundreds of millions of human beings on this earth have it worse. More

Despite it winning so many awards, Slumdog Millionaire didn’t top your list of must-see films in 2008. Last week Answers user AmandaDee asked ‘What was your favourite film of 2008’. We liked this question and chose to feature it on the Yahoo!7 homepage on Thursday. 184 of you gave your opinions and there were some very interesting results.

The overwhelming favourite was The Dark Knight who some believe was snubbed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the organisation that judges the awards). Fortunately Heath Ledger’s performance didn’t go unrecognised and was posthumously awarded the Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.

As for you guys, Twilight seemed to be a particular favourite getting many votes in the Answers poll for the best film of 2008. Also not Golden Globe material, however as ericamaachelle says, it’ll probably get nominated in the MTV movie awards and teen choice awards.

Many of you loved the cheesy singing and dancing revelry of Abba film Mamma Mia which was recognised with nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Meryl Streep. Unfortunately it missed out on both awards to Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Sally Hawkins, star of Happy-Go-Lucky.

You were a bit more on the money with your favourite animated film. Many of you fell in love with the cute antics of Wall-E, the Disney animated robot. It was recognised as the Best Animated Feature Film, beating Bolt and Kung Fu Panda to the prize.

Wow it all looks so good! After seeing your favourites and the Golden Globe Awarded films, here are my top five films I want to see:

• The Dark Knight
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall-E
• Vicky Christina Barcelona

What are yours?

Caitlin
Community Manager